Too Easily Pleased

American culture says that real life requires the gratification of our desires.

Distorted spirituality says real life requires the elimination of our desires,

Buddhism, for example.

Jesus says that real life requires the transformation of our desires.

If you are thirsty - unsatisfied desires - "come to me."

Desire itself is an invitation to seek God's presence.

C.S. Lewis wrote,

"Indeed, if we consider the staggering nature of the rewards 

promised in the Gospels, it would seem that 

our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak.

 We are far too easily pleased."

- John Ortberg

GOD IS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK